If you're new here, Darkness Weaver is a free platform for World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness, with character creators, interactive character sheets, PDF exports, quizzes, and The Loom, our VTT built specifically with these games in mind.

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The world is already full of things humans were never meant to see.

Garou know this better than most. But they were never the only ones fighting for Gaia.

The Fera have their own histories, their own ways of seeing the Umbra, their own Gifts, and their own reasons for standing against the darkness.

And with the latest update, W20 Changing Breeds is now fully supported in Darkness Weaver.

For those seeing Darkness Weaver for the first time, it’s a completely free platform for World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness, with character creators, interactive sheets, PDF exports, quizzes, and The Loom, our VTT built specifically around these games.

The Fera

The Changing Breed creators now support:

Ajaba, Ananasi, Bastet, Corax, Gurahl, Kitsune, Mokolé, Nagah, Nuwisha, Ratkin and Rokea, along with the lost breeds Apis, Camazotz and Grondr.

One of the biggest changes was making sure these characters actually feel like Fera.

Garou-specific options such as tribe, auspice and breed no longer bleed into the other Changing Breeds, and each Fera now follows its own character creation rules where appropriate.

Gifts of the Fera

The Gift system has been rebuilt around the categories found in W20 Changing Breeds.

Breed, Aspect, Tribe, Stream, Faction and General Gifts now have their proper place, with validation to prevent Gifts from the wrong traditions quietly slipping through.

The catalogue has also been substantially expanded, including cross-references to Gifts originating from the Garou.

Some of the stranger paths through the Umbra now have their own rules as well.

Kitsune, Ananasi, Rokea, Corax, Ratkin and the lost breeds all receive their specific creation mechanics rather than being squeezed into a Garou shaped template.

Breed-specific backgrounds such as Den-Realm, Umbral Maps, Umbral Glade, Mnesis, Wallow and Ananta have also been added.

The Lost

And then there are the ones that are no longer supposed to be here.

Apis. Camazotz. Grondr.

The lost breeds can now be created as well, although they require Storyteller approval, just as they should.

A little more of the Umbra

The update also brings an expanded collection of Fera glyphs, covering breeds, aspects, tribes and Bastet sub-tribes.

The resulting dossiers now properly represent the character's Fera identity instead of carrying over unnecessary Garou specific fields.

There’s still more work to do, but the Fera now have a much stronger place in Darkness Weaver.

The Garou may have their war.

The Fera have always had their own.

If you play one of the Changing Breeds, I’d love to hear what you think of the new support.

And as always, if you notice something missing, something that feels wrong, or simply have an idea that would make the experience better, please let me know. Community feedback has shaped a huge part of Darkness Weaver so far.

If you're new to Darkness Weaver, welcome!

Darkness Weaver is a free web platform built for World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness. It brings together various character creators, unique PDF character sheets, cloud saves, personality quizzes, and The Loom, an integrated virtual tabletop built specifically for Storytellers.

Instead of trying to be a generic VTT, the goal is to create a platform that supports the unique way World of Darkness games are prepared and run.

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I’ve just added Changeling: The Lost 2e to Darkness Weaver.

If you’ve been waiting to run or play Lost in a more structured way, it’s now fully supported across the platform.

This isn’t just a basic sheet. It’s a full experience from character creation all the way to play.

What you can do with it

You can create your character step by step, pick your Seeming, Kith, Court, Contracts and everything else you’d expect from Lost, and then immediately start playing on an interactive sheet.

Once your character is ready, you can:

• Play directly on the sheet with all your resources and Contracts tracked
• Export a clean, unique style PDF
• Bring your character into The Loom and use it during sessions
• Take a short quiz if you’re not sure what kind of Changeling you want to play

The whole thing follows the same structure as the other systems on the site, so if you’ve used Darkness Weaver before, it should feel very familiar.

If you play Lost, I’d really love your feedback.

• Does the flow feel right during character creation?
• Is anything missing that you normally use at the table?
• What would make this more useful during an actual session?

A lot of features in Darkness Weaver came directly from community feedback, so I’m always listening.

If you're new to Darkness Weaver, welcome!

Darkness Weaver is a free web platform built for both World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness. It brings together character creators across multiple game lines, official-style PDF character sheets, cloud saves, personality quizzes, and The Loom, an integrated virtual tabletop designed specifically for Storytellers.

Whether you're playing Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Hunter, Wraith, Changeling, Demon, Mummy, Kindred of the East, Vampire: The Requiem, Mage: The Awakening, Princess: The Hopeful, or other supported game lines, the goal is to provide a single home for preparing, running, and managing your chronicles.

Rather than trying to be a generic VTT, Darkness Weaver is built around the way World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness games are actually played.

Over the last development cycle, I've been focused on expanding The Loom into a complete Storyteller workspace.

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Session Management

Storytellers can create and manage rooms, assign player roles, start and end sessions without closing the table, keep session summaries, browse previous sessions, and review detailed dice statistics alongside a chronological session log.

Storyteller Dice & Adjudication

The Loom now supports a complete Storyteller dice workflow.

• Roll on behalf of players or NPCs
• Public and secret rolls
• Hunger, Rage, and Desperation dice
• Rouse Checks, Blood Surge, and Willpower rerolls
• Contest, Cooperative, and Extended group rolls
• Temporary modifiers and room-wide difficulty controls

NPC Showcase

Create NPCs from scratch or link existing character sheets, track health and conditions, organize biographies and story roles, reveal information gradually to selected players, share media, and roll directly from linked NPC sheets.

Stage Tools

Turn the tabletop into a presentation space with drawing tools, annotations, zoom, image management, hidden media, synchronized timers, and multiple background types.

Modern & Historical Chronicle Maps

Build interactive Chronicle Maps with multiple boards for different cities or regions.

Place locations, NPCs, routes, and territories, organize them with layers, control what players can see, search for locations, and seamlessly switch between modern maps and historical world maps. Historical chronicles also support year-based navigation and multiple visual styles to better match different time periods.

Chronicle Journal

Every chronicle now includes its own campaign codex.

Write session reports, historical eras, events, milestones, and custom pages. Keep drafts private, publish them when you're ready, and automatically build a chronological timeline that players can explore.

Storyteller Communication & Atmosphere

Private Storyteller notes, player-specific notes, one to one secret messages, synchronized YouTube playlists, and session management tools are all built directly into the table.

System-Specific Features

Rather than forcing every game into the same workflow, The Loom adapts to individual game lines with dedicated mechanics such as Hunter Cells, Wraith Shadows, Werewolf form-based dice pools, and other system-specific tools.

Outside of The Loom, Darkness Weaver also includes:

• Character creators covering both World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness game lines.
• Official-style printable PDF character sheets generated directly from your characters.
• Cloud saves that allow characters to move seamlessly from character creation into The Loom.
• Personality quizzes that help players discover their clan, tribe, tradition, creed, kith, auspice, and other supernatural identities.

The project is still actively evolving, and many of its features exist because of community feedback.

I'd really love to hear what you think.

• What tools are missing from your ideal World of Darkness or Chronicles of Darkness VTT?
• What parts of your Storytelling workflow still happen outside your tabletop software?
• Is there a feature that would genuinely make preparing or running your chronicles easier?

Every suggestion is welcome, and there's a good chance your feedback will help shape future updates.

This update brings one of the biggest improvements to The Loom so far, along with full support for one of the most requested W20 factions.

Black Spiral Dancers Are Now Available

Black Spiral Dancers are now fully supported in the Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary character creator.

This is much more than simply adding another tribe. The entire creation flow has been adapted to reflect the Wyrm perspective.

Included in this update

• Full Black Spiral Dancers tribe support.
• Complete Wyrm faction integration.
• 76 official Gifts covering Ranks 1 through 5.
• Tribe glyph and visual identity.
• Dedicated Wyrm-themed character sheet.
• Corruption tracker.
• Renown uses Power, Cunning and Infamy instead of the Gaia Renown categories.
• Hive terminology throughout the builder and dossier, including Hive and Hive Totem.
• Updated validation and UI that understand Wyrm faction rules.

Whether you're creating memorable antagonists or running an entire Black Spiral Dancer chronicle, Darkness Weaver now fully supports the experience.

The Loom Update

Cross-Game NPC Support

Storyteller NPCs are no longer restricted by the room's game line or edition.

When creating or editing an NPC, you can now link any character from your Darkness Weaver library.

That includes:

• Vampire
• Hunter
• Mage
• Werewolf
• Changeling
• Wraith
• Demon
• Mummy
• Princess
• Custom Sheets (Coming Soon)
• Every other supported character type

Characters are grouped by game line inside the selector, making them easy to browse even if you have a large collection.

The only exception is Hunter Cell Sheets, since they follow a different workflow than individual characters.

Player character selection remains unchanged. Players still join a room with characters that match that room's game line. Cross-game support is exclusive to Storytellers when managing NPCs.

Power Rolls Have Arrived

One of the biggest additions in this update is full Power Roll support throughout The Loom.

Players can now roll powers directly from their linked character sheets, and Storytellers can do the same for linked NPCs.

Supported powers include:

• Disciplines
• Gifts
• Edges
• Spheres
• Arts
• Arcanoi
• Other game-specific supernatural abilities

The Loom automatically calculates the correct dice pool from the linked character sheet while using the room's selected dice engine, whether that is Classic Storyteller or V5.

There is no need to calculate pools manually or switch back to the character sheet during play.

Whether you're activating a Discipline as a Vampire, using a Gift as a Garou, casting a Sphere Effect as a Mage, or resolving an NPC's supernatural abilities, everything can now be rolled directly from the game table.

Redesigned NPC Panel

Managing large NPC casts is now much easier.

The Storyteller NPC panel has been redesigned into a compact list that keeps the sidebar clean even during busy sessions.

Each NPC is displayed as a single row showing:

• Portrait
• Character name
• Game line
• Linked sheet status

Selecting an NPC opens a dedicated profile window where Storytellers can:

• View a larger portrait and character details.
• Check Health and Willpower.
• Read NPC notes.
• Perform Trait Rolls, Power Rolls and Manual Pool rolls.
• Reveal NPC media to players.
• Open or close linked character sheets.
• Edit or remove NPCs.

This keeps the sidebar compact while giving quick access to everything needed during a session.

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Looking Ahead

Darkness Weaver continues to grow beyond a character creator.

The goal has always been to build a complete platform where you can create characters, manage chronicles, and play your sessions online without switching between multiple tools.

Every update brings Darkness Weaver closer to that vision.

As always, thank you for all the feedback, feature requests and bug reports. They continue to shape the future of Darkness Weaver.

Over the past few months I've been working on two features that take Darkness Weaver far beyond being just a character creator.

One brings the medieval World of Darkness to the platform. The other is the first step toward a fully integrated online tabletop experience.

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V20 Dark Ages is now available

The World of Darkness didn't begin with the Masquerade.

With this update, Darkness Weaver now fully supports V20 Dark Ages, giving medieval chronicles their own dedicated home instead of treating them as a variation of modern Vampire.

This release includes:

• 16 Clans & Bloodlines, including High Clans, Low Clans, Salubri, Lamia and Baali.
• The complete Road system with all eight Roads.
• 19 Disciplines, including Daimoinon, Chimerstry, Obeah and Obtenebration.
• Medieval Backgrounds, Merits & Flaws.
• Period-appropriate terminology throughout the creator and character sheets.
• Cloud saves, PDF export.
• Full English and Turkish localization.

V20 Dark Ages has its own creator, character sheets and save slots, keeping it completely separate from modern Vampire while remaining faithful to the original rules.

Introducing The Loom

The second major addition is something I've wanted to build since the first versions of Darkness Weaver.

The Loom is a browser-based virtual tabletop designed specifically for World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness. Rather than adapting a generic VTT to Storyteller games, every part of The Loom is built around the mechanics and storytelling style these games rely on.

The idea is simple: create your character, save it to your account, join a room with an invite code, and start playing immediately. No exporting character sheets, no separate dice bots, and no switching between multiple tools during a session.

Current features include:

• Storyteller, Player and Spectator roles, each with their own permissions and interface.
• Live character sheet integration, with automatic synchronization between your saved character and the game table.
• Support for both V5 mechanics and the classic Storyteller d10 system.
• Universe-specific Google Maps themes, allowing every chronicle to use a map style that matches the atmosphere of its game line, alongside custom scene backgrounds for important locations.
• Comprehensive NPC management. Storytellers can create NPCs from scratch, import their existing Darkness Weaver characters as NPCs, or reveal and hide NPC character sheets during play.
• Interactive storyteller tools including drawing, pointers, zoom controls, timers and scene annotations.
• Private Storyteller-to-player messaging alongside the shared game chat.
• Session logs, chronicle history and dice statistics that remain available after the game ends.
• Real-time synchronization, ensuring every player sees the same map, media, dice rolls and scene updates instantly.
• Browser-based multiplayer with no software installation required.

Because The Loom is part of the Darkness Weaver ecosystem, everything works together naturally. Characters created anywhere on the platform can immediately join a game, NPCs can be reused across chronicles, character sheets update automatically, and Storytellers don't need to manage multiple disconnected applications just to run a session.

The goal has never been to replace every virtual tabletop. Instead, it's to provide a VTT that feels like it was designed specifically for World of Darkness from day one.

Darkness Weaver started as a character creator, but the long-term vision has always been much bigger.

The goal is to provide one place where you can create your characters, organize your chronicles and play your sessions without needing a collection of separate apps.

These two additions are the biggest step toward that vision so far.

As always, I'd love to hear your feedback. If you're running V20 Dark Ages chronicles or looking for a World of Darkness-focused online tabletop, I'd love to know what you think.

Hey everyone!

This update is one of the biggest I've released so far. Play Room is now available, along with new profile customization features.

Play Room

Play Room is a virtual tabletop built specifically for World of Darkness.

Create a room or join one with a room code and bring your existing Darkness Weaver characters directly into your session.

Inside a room you can:

• Use your saved character sheet live during play.
• Edit your character sheet during the session with automatic cloud saving.
• Roll dice directly from your character's Attributes and Skills for supported game lines.
• Create manual dice pools whenever needed.
• Use universe-specific dice systems, including Hunger (Vampire V5), Rage (Werewolf V5), and Desperation (Hunter V5).
• Let Storytellers make hidden rolls visible only to them.
• Upload and arrange maps, handouts, and other table media that every participant sees in real time.
• Keep a live session log of dice rolls and important events.
• Set the maximum number of participants for each room.
• Assign participants as either Players or Observers.
• Invite everyone with a simple room code.
• Rename, close, or permanently delete rooms when your chronicle is finished.

Universe Avatar Frames

Every supported game line now has its own unique avatar frame.

Unlock them by:

• Creating a character in that universe.
• Completing its lore quiz.

Your selected frame appears on both your profile and inside Play Room sessions.

Supporter Features

Supporters now receive:

• A Supporter badge on their profile.
• Animated GIF profile avatars.

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Darkness Weaver is still under active development, and I'm building it as a solo developer. That means every bug report, suggestion, and piece of feedback genuinely helps shape the project.

If you have some time, I'd really appreciate it if you could:

• Try the new Play Room with your group.
• Report any bugs or issues you encounter.
• Share your thoughts on how the experience feels.
• Tell me what Storyteller tools, quality of life improvements, or other features you'd like to see next.

My goal is to build the best online platform for World of Darkness players and Storytellers, and community feedback plays a huge role in deciding what comes next.

Thank you to everyone who has supported Darkness Weaver so far. I couldn't have made this much progress without the community.

With special requests from supporters, Princess: The Hopefull is now available!

Whether you're creating your first Princess or bringing a long-running character to life, the system is ready to explore. As always, this release is still part of an ongoing development journey, and your feedback is one of the most important tools shaping its future.

If you encounter bugs, usability issues, incorrect rules implementations, character creation problems, or anything that simply feels off, please let me know. Every report helps improve the experience, and many of the features currently available exist because of suggestions and feedback from the community.

The vision behind this project has never been limited to character creation alone. The goal is to build a place where chronicles begin, characters continue to grow beyond a single sheet, and players can discover, share, and celebrate each other's stories across the many worlds we love.

The project remains actively developed, so please expect occasional rough edges. If you find them, report them. If you enjoy something, tell me that too. Every piece of feedback helps guide what comes next.

Thank you to everyone who has supported the project so far, and I hope you enjoy exploring Princess: The Hopeful.

One thing I've wanted from the beginning was for the project to feel less like a collection of character sheets and more like a living World of Darkness community.

To move closer to that goal, the latest updates introduced a new social layer to the platform.

Users can now follow one another, making it easier to discover fellow Storytellers, players, artists, and character creators across the various game lines. Whether you're building a coterie, a pack, a motley, a cabal, or something far stranger, finding other members of the community should feel more natural.

Profile pages have also been expanded and now serve as a personal corner of the World of Darkness. Users can showcase their favorite characters, display quiz results, and build a profile that reflects the stories they're most interested in telling.

I've also added a growing collection of lore-inspired quizzes. Some are focused on individual game lines, while the new Universe Quiz helps newcomers discover where they might belong within the larger World of Darkness. Are you destined for the Jyhad? Drawn to the Dreaming? Haunted by the Shadowlands? The quiz aims to point players toward the corners of the setting that resonate most with them.

Characters themselves have become more personal as well. Custom avatars can now be assigned to created characters, helping them stand out both on profiles and throughout the platform.

The homepage has received a community-focused overhaul too. Recently created characters are now featured on the front page, allowing visitors to see what the community is creating and drawing attention to new stories waiting to be told.

Alongside these additions, there have been numerous UI and UX improvements throughout the application, continuing the push toward a smoother and more immersive World of Darkness experience.

That said, the project is still very much a work in progress. New systems, sheets, social features, and game lines are being added continuously, which means bugs, edge cases, and occasional rules mistakes are inevitable.

If you decide to try it out, bug reports, UX feedback, and rules corrections are incredibly valuable. Whether it's a broken feature, an incorrect character creation rule, a confusing interface, or simply something that doesn't feel right at the table, I'd love to hear about it. Community feedback has already shaped many of the features currently in the project, and it remains one of the most important parts of development.

The long-term vision remains the same: not just a character creator, but a place where chronicles begin, characters live on beyond a single sheet, and members of the community can discover each other's stories.

The Weaver has been busy.

While Vampires were plotting, Werewolves were smashing things, and Hunters were arguing about who's actually in charge, a few new residents quietly found their way into Darkness Weaver.

🩸 Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition (V20)

🔫 Hunter: The Reckoning 20th Anniversary Edition (H20)

🐺 Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition (W20)

are now available.

One thing I've tried to avoid from the beginning is making every game line feel like the same character sheet wearing a different hat.

A Vampire shouldn't feel like a Garou with renamed fields, and a Hunter definitely shouldn't feel like either of them.

Because of that, every supported game line has its own online sheet and its own PDF export designed around that specific game. The goal is for each character to feel like it belongs to its world, whether it's struggling with Humanity, wrestling with Rage, or trying to survive another terrible decision.

Darkness Weaver now supports a growing collection of both 20th Anniversary and 5th Edition World of Darkness games, and character creation is finally reaching a point where I can start looking toward the next chapter of the project.

The current roadmap includes things like:

• Chronicle and campaign spaces

• Storyteller tools

• NPC management

• Session notes and timeline tracking

• Relationship maps

• Connected character and chronicle data

• A World of Darkness lore and reference library

The long-term goal is to build something more than a character creator: a place where players and Storytellers can keep their chronicles alive between sessions.

For now though, I'm going back to arguing with character sheets and wondering why every supernatural creature in the World of Darkness insists on having a completely different way of tracking things.

As always, feedback, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome.

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Stay safe. The World of Darkness probably won't.